Mute
Posted: Sat 12 April, 2008 Filed under: Cynicism, Geeky, Weirdness Leave a comment »Isn’t it amazing that you can still confuse some people by just turning their phones to silent when they’re out of the office, and the bloody thing keeps ringing?
Even after [cough] years with mobiles, some people just still don’t know how to silence them. Thankfully, some of us do know how to do so…
GPS Question
Posted: Thu 10 April, 2008 Filed under: Cynicism, Driving, Thoughts, Weirdness 7 Comments »A question for those of you who have a GPS system.
Where do you put it in the car?
By which I mean where on the windscreen, of course.
When I’m using it, the GPS/Satnav goes down on the bottom right-hand corner of the window. There I can see it without having to take my eyes too far off the road, and it doesn’t obstruct my view. To me that makes sense.
However, I notice that a lot of people seem to put the SatNav in the bottom middle of the windscreen, directly above the centre console of the dashboard. To me this just seems like a really awkward place, causing you to move your eyes right away from the road, and also blocking the view of a certain bit of road.
So I’m just wondering what other people who read this do.
When I’m Cleaning Windows
Posted: Fri 4 April, 2008 Filed under: Animals, Weirdness Leave a comment »All I can say is “Rather him than me“.
Window-cleaning in alligator and snake pens, indeed. In some ways I wouldn’t mind – it’d be interesting, you can at least say that – but at the same time well, I can think of plenty of things I’d rather be doing…
Suddenly Missing
Posted: Wed 2 April, 2008 Filed under: Driving, Weirdness 2 Comments »When driving, I’ve noticed there’s something I sometimes find quite distracting. It’s when a car suddenly disappears from the rear-view mirror.
It’s happened a few times recently – and OK, I suppose it’s better than having one suddenly disappearing from in front of you, at least. But it really is quite disconcerting to be driving along, knowing what’s in front and behind, then checking the mirror and it’s a completely different vehicle. Most bizarre – and distracting for a good couple of seconds, if nothing else.
Even worse (in my opinion) is when I’ve overtaken someone on a motorway or dual carriageway, then indicate to pull in and the car I’ve just overtaken has disappeared. That’s really distracting (particularly on motorways) and makes me wonder if the car’s in my blind-spot (which, on an estate car is pretty large) before I spot that they’ve also moved over to the first lane.
It’s just weird and distracting, that’s all.
Cave of Swallows
Posted: Wed 19 March, 2008 Filed under: Weirdness 3 Comments »(via Matt)
This is just fantastic – the Cave of Swallows, a 400m cave in South America. So deep you could hide the Empire State Building in it, and people can BASE jump down into it.
Utterly, utterly mad. And excellent.
Village-wide
Posted: Wed 6 February, 2008 Filed under: Domestic, Weirdness 2 Comments »In some ways, the village where we now live is very weird. It seems like some things happen in phases all across the village – things like that everyone put up their christmas decorations in the same weekend, or that there was one weekend where simply everyone seemed to be cutting their grass on the same weekend.
This time, it’s even odder – although it’s not as village-wide. But still, I’ve counted at least eight houses near us that have cut down large trees in the last couple of weeks. I’ve no idea why it’s all happening at the same time, why there seem to be these phases, or anything – but still, it’s happening.
All very odd, and it makes me wonder what the next phase will be…